Doesn't matter if you like the Blair Witch Project or even if you've seen it - you know what it is. There was a time you couldn't escape it. The image of the girl, face half out of frame, beanie on, camera angled up her nose, crying and alone in the dark, was everywhere. People even thought the film was real, bought into the marketing hoax. There had been nothing like it before. A budget film with camcorder footage, behaving differently, scaring differently. I will never forget that ending sequence (I don't want to spoil it even now), it's one of the scariest things I've seen in a film. Blair Witch was a cultural phenomenon.
Mind you, know what's even scarier? Buckle up: the Blair Witch Project is 20 years old this October. Aaargh run for the hills!
But it makes 2019 a very good year for a Blair Witch video game, and as if by magic, one is on its way, announced at E3 on Microsoft's stage and made by Layers of Fear and Observer developer Bloober.